From Common Cause (http://www.commoncause.org):
TAKE ACTION: Tell the top election official in your state to protect our elections against hacking—send a message at https://actionnetwork.org/letters/protect-our-elections-against-hacking.
We need you to speak up for our right to free and fair elections.
Congress has approved millions of dollars in election security spending — but a small group of top state election officials is trying to block any accountability for how it gets spent. At this week’s National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) meeting, they’ll propose letting states use that money without any guarantees it’ll actually secure our elections.
Your state’s top official will vote on this proposal within the next few days — and they need to hear from you to make sure they vote NO!
It’s critically important that new federal money going to all 50 states goes towards the measures experts say we need for secure elections — like verifiable paper ballots or post-election audits. We need these critical safeguards to protect our elections from foreign interference.
The attacks we saw on the 2016 election shined a new light on the need for security — and it’s vitally important that we take serious action before 2020.
We deserve to be confident that our election results are accurate and secure. The most effective solutions are common sense: paper ballots in every state, an audit of these ballots to confirm election results, paper back-ups of our voter registration databases, and electronic voter rolls.
The federal government has allocated money to do just that — but now, we need to make sure states spend it the right way. NASS is meeting this week in Washington, D.C., and a vote on this budget is expected within the next few days. That means we have to act NOW to put a stop to this proposal.
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